Shark Mount

[Frizze]

Man, this is starting to sound like content I'd be better off avoiding for a week or two while all the hype dies down. Can just imagine getting grouped up with people that'll get upset that I'm "not fishing hard enough!"

This. But im also afraid if i wait too long i might not get enough people doing voyages for the top prizes to be in reach.

[SingleMaltFan]

Man, this is starting to sound like content I'd be better off avoiding for a week or two while all the hype dies down. Can just imagine getting grouped up with people that'll get upset that I'm "not fishing hard enough!"

The problem with waiting is that a lot of the bonus multipliers require a group effort to catch enough fish to trigger them. Also, the bigger the group, the more likely someone will trigger the spectral current. If you wait until interest dies down, you might not get full parties, and that will make it tougher to get enough points for the mount.

I wouldn't worry about getting yelled at. In the dozen or so runs I made, no one said anything to anybody beyond a few greetings at the very beginning. Most people are too focused on maximizing their own score to worry about what everyone else is doing.

One final note, in the run where I finally hit the 10,000 mark and got the mount, there was a guy leveling in the single digits. Even low levels can catch fish and contribute to the group effort.

[Hasrat]

The problem with waiting is that a lot of the bonus multipliers require a group effort to catch enough fish to trigger them. Also, the bigger the group, the more likely someone will trigger the spectral current. If you wait until interest dies down, you might not get full parties, and that will make it tougher to get enough points for the mount.

Oh no. I might miss out on an ugly "shark."

What I enjoy most about this game is enjoying content at my own pace. I started 2.0 sometime around, like, 3.3 or something, I think. As of now, I still haven't bought ShB, because there's still enough for me to do as is. I'm not in a world-first rush to 100% this brand new content within a week.

[Rowde]

got mine today with 55xx points, after 80% bonuses ended with 10168.

I stopped using Patience altogether. I used Chum if my GP was at max just so it was sitting at cap, aimed for conserving GP so that I could Double Hook 3 times during Spectral Currents with a Hi-Cordial.

[Commander_Justitia]

I stopped using Patience altogether.

Seems to be the real solution. Double Hook and its multiple fishes grants more points than HQ fish. People hook up to 90 fish that way. Can have three double hooks per special current window. You might get the 10% for 35 fish during special current on top of the one for 15. And your team has to focus to get the rare big fish of the zone for the extra completion 10%.
That is the only reason we need to switch baits tbh to catch all 10 different fish of an area.

[Doozer]

It would be nice if spectral currents weren't so vague or the fish to trigger them weren't so random. The first time I went I saw all 3 spectral currents, but I only ended with about ~6000 points because I hadn't done it before and I was rusty with fishing. Ever since then I'd be lucky to see it once, and I always end up in the top 3-4 players on the ship and I'm not sure what else I can do to make it go better.

It really doesn't help that the last time I went the party leader gave up halfway through the last spot. We weren't doing well anyway, but they just fully left and screwed the rest of us. There should definitely be a lockout if you join a voyage and then leave early to try to get in to another one. Maybe it would stop people from jumping ship because they're not getting what they want.

[Alleo]

Yes it would be nice if less RNG is involved because its really demotivating to finally get a spectral fish and to not start a rainbow at all. Especially if you already had one and only needed another to finally get the mount..The problem with the lockout is, that people could then simply go afk on board and the result is the same.

I also dont know why they stopp us from fishing around the 0.30 mark..why not let it go down to 0 and after that start a one minute time where people either can relax, talk, repair or buy more bait..

[Commander_Justitia]

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I also dont know why they stopp us from fishing around the 0.30 mark..why not let it go down to 0 and after that start a one minute time where people either can relax, talk, repair or buy more bait..

There are even fish where you need more than 30s for them to bite or you can only reel in when its at 0s or not at all, but then you already start loading into another zone, it feels like it needs to be increased.

If you have fishing results from players enabled in chatlog, you actually see a lot of captured spectral fishes, I would say sometimes people catch around 30 or more of them and it doesn't trigger. Would be nice to have a max value that triggers it besides the certain % chance.

[Alleo]

There are even fish where you need more than 30s for them to bite or you can only reel in when its at 0s or not at all, but then you already start loading into another zone, it feels like it needs to be increased.

If you have fishing results from players enabled in chatlog, you actually see a lot of captured spectral fishes, I would say sometimes people catch around 30 or more of them and it doesn't trigger. Would be nice to have a max value that triggers it besides the certain % chance.

Yeah maybe just having a new one minute timer afterwards would help so even if you start at 0.1 seconds you can still catch it and everyone else can use that time to repair, sell or talk. Just a bit of relaxing time before the next phase beginns.

True and we had someone in our group that captures like three spectral fishes in HQ and got no phase. It really would be great to know the percentage that such a catch brings. Or maybe its not about a percentage, maybe you need x amount of spectral fish.

Also I finally got my mount. Two spectrals and a few HQ fishes got me around 6k, but even with the big bonus, I barely managed it. Finally I am free of this for a while (until I want to catch them all).

Been trying to just get on the fricking boat since it opened....

Is there any problem with that? Went in it minutes after the first one started and it took a bit but even then we thankfully got a full boat.

[VictorTheed]

Nice, thanks everyone for the tips, been trying to get this mount for at least a day now.